The iPhones that were stolen in the Los Angeles riots are all reportedly sounding an annoying alarm saying it should be returned so thieves are abandoning them. LOL.
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🏙️ Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has instated a curfew in the city to quiet the ongoing protests and riots.
🗣️ U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says Palestinians should carve a homeland out of a Muslim country since in his words, they have more land. He also confirmed that the U.S. no longer supports an independent Palestinian state.
🤝 The next round of U.S.–Russia peace talks will take place in Moscow instead of Istanbul, and will focus on removing so-called “irritants.” Does that mean Ukraine?
🧪 The U.S. claims to have arrested a second Chinese person who was accused of “smuggling biological material into the country.”
📝 The U.S. and China reached a framework agreement in London to implement their previous Geneva trade truce—slashing tariffs, resolving rare-earth export restrictions, and easing semiconductor curbs—pending final approval from Presidents Trump and Xi.
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The Lead: Washington to Ukraine: Fewer Weapons, Figure It Out
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. will reduce military aid to Ukraine in upcoming budgets.
He didn’t say stop. He said reduce.
“It is a reduction in this budget,” Hegseth said when asked about upcoming military aid funding for Ukraine. “This administration takes a very different view of that conflict. A negotiated peaceful settlement is in the best interest of both parties and our nation’s interests especially with all the competing interests around the globe.”
According to the Associated Press, “the U.S. to date has provided Ukraine more than $66 billion in aid since Russia invaded in February 2022.” That figure only counts direct aid packages—not the billions paid to defense contractors. If you add that in, the real number climbs much higher.
Will the people who profited from this war really allow this to stop? Probably not. Thus the term “reduction” and not “end.”
Meanwhile, Ukraine is already low on weapons and Europe is not about to pick up the slack. Will this push Ukrainian President Zelensky to agree to a peace deal? Who knows, that fool is illogical.
But what it does signal—to Russia and the rest of the world—is a shift. Because let’s be honest: sending missiles to one side while calling for peace with the other has never been a winning diplomatic strategy.
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President Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday and the two leaders reportedly spoke about Iran.
It was reportedly a “tense” conversation where President Trump reportedly told the Israeli Prime Minister to “permanently end the war in the Gaza Strip” and that attacking Iran was “off limits.”
That’s promising but President Trump also told Fox News that “Iran is acting much differently in negotiations than it did just days ago.”
Iran has said that it will have nuclear power and enrich uranium for non-weapons purposes and has complied with the International Atomic Energy Agency. This week, the IAEA will vote on whether or not to declare that Iran is in violation of the Nonproliferation Treaty.
Why does this require a vote? Either Iran is compliant or not. Making that decision based on a vote seems, dare I say it? Political. It’s like voting on the solution to a math problem. That’s not how it works.
5. That is how many Waymo self-driving vehicles have been lit on fire in the Los Angeles riots. Waymo suspended service to certain parts of Los Angeles as a result. What is the social message of that act exactly?
$134 million. That is how much the deployment of the military to Los Angeles will cost, according to Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, special assistant to the secretary of defense.
30,000. That is how many Ford electric F-150 Lightning vehicles are being recalled for a serious steering issue.
At least 9,000 undocumented immigrants will be sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camp in the coming days, “according to documents obtained by POLITICO.”
The detentions are supposed to be temporary. Detainees would stop over in Gitmo on their way to their countries of origin.
POLITICO explains that “the official reason for the transfers is to free up bed space at detention facilities on domestic American soil, but the use of the notorious facility, which has long housed terrorism suspects, would also send another signal aimed at deterring illegal immigration to the United States.”
So best case scenario is that it is a scare tactic.
Worst case? It becomes a legal black hole—where even non-criminals are denied due process. And yes, that did happen under both the Bush and Obama administrations.
How will we know which scenario becomes reality? We won’t—not if the government insists on rerouting civilians through a facility designed to operate outside the rule of law.
RFK Jr. Ousts Entire CDC Vaccine Panel Over Safety Concerns
All 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) were dismissed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services. This board is responsible for approving vaccines on the childhood immunization schedule, and Secretary Kennedy accused the outgoing members of “malevolent malpractice.”
The main reason for the housecleaning, according to Kennedy, is their “stubborn unwillingness to demand adequate safety trials before recommending new vaccines for our children.” He continued:
“Today, a compliant American child receives between 69 and 92 routine vaccines (depending on brand/dictated dosage) from conception to 18 years of age. This is up from 11 shots in 1986. ACIP has recommended each of these additional jabs without requiring placebo-controlled trials for any of them. This means that no one can scientifically ascertain whether these products are averting more problems than they are causing.”
Vaccine manufacturers often justify the lack of placebo-controlled trials by arguing that it would be unethical to give a true placebo—such as saline—to one group if the vaccine being tested is potentially beneficial. They claim it would be wrong to deny participants a treatment that might protect them. As a result, new vaccines are typically tested against earlier versions rather than against inert placebos.
This means that when vaccine makers report their product is, say, X-percent effective, they’re measuring its effectiveness relative to a previous version—not against people who received no vaccine at all.
Secretary Kennedy says he will announce new ACIP members in the coming days and they will not be “ideological anti-vaxxers” but rather “highly credentialed physicians and scientists who will make extremely consequential public health determinations by applying evidence-based decision-making with objectivity and common sense.”
What’s Trending?
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Justin Timberlake is trending because he is on tour and his dance moves are getting roasted. What is this ‘mop dance’ supposed to be exactly?
Aaron Rodgers is trending because he revealed that he has been married for months. Fans were wondering because he is wearing a wedding ring in this photo, which is of him signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Hillary Clinton is trending because of this post about the “peaceful demonstrations” in Los Angeles. LOL. Any wonder that the comments are off?
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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris. Please feel free to reach Natali at [email protected] for any editorial feedback.
